The Journal of Black Research (JBR) is a publication of Black Researchers United L.L.C.
The purpose of the JBR is to serve as a repository of research by both aspiring and professional writers of Black African heritage.
In essence, this will be a platform for Black researchers to share their findings with research enthusiasts around the world. The lessons discussed in these articles will span a broad range of subjects in both history and science.
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Sickle cell anemia testing at the Black Community Survival Conference
March 30, 1972
Photo by Bob Fitch
(Source: Stanford Libraries)
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was a revolutionary socialist organization founded in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton – then students at Merritt College in Oakland, California.
That same year, Seale and Newton drafted a “Ten Point Platform and Program,” calling for full employment, decent housing, truthful education, and an end to police brutality. Nutrition was also implied in the final point – a synopsis of all their demands:
WE WANT land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace...
American dentist William Thomas Green Morton (1819-1968) is often considered the first to discover general anesthesia and to pioneer its applications in surgery.
However, four and a half years before Morton’s breakthrough, a young man from the Southern states named Crawford Williamson Long (1815-1878) became the first physician to operate with no pain, performing minor surgical and obstetric procedures under anesthesia using diethyl (sulfuric) ether.
Long’s legacy is a testament to the silent, but significant role that Black Americans occupied in the history of medicine.
